Life Mission is a relatively new organization. The
time so far since inception has been devoted largely to creating and
cultivating the Fellowship and laying down the infrastructure needed for
its work. However, a far-reaching and ambitious Community Development
Project is on the Mission’s agenda of work that will extend Mission
outreach to the far flung rural areas and significantly touch lives to
make a difference for the better. The present draft of the Project
envisages 180 village based development efforts (representing ten
percent of the State’s villages) where the backup support of an
organized Mission Center is available. Each Project Center will cater to
a cluster of ten adjoining villages. Thus, the full rural base of the
State is brought into the Project’s ambit. Twelve Divisional Offices are
envisaged, one for every fifteen rural centers, so that the projects
receive organized administrative supervision, direction and control. The
pyramidical structure is topped off by six Regional Centers, one for
every two Divisional Offices and thirty Village Centers. The State level
Project Headquarters will be at Rajrajeshwardham.

Phasing

A nine-year phasing is built into the draft project,
three stages of three years each, with a modest start in the first year
and a reasonable acceleration in the following two. Project costs are
expected to be met out of community contribution and participation and
contributions from within the country and outside. Thirty, sixty and
ninety Village Centers are planned to be set up in each group of three
years from year of start. The corresponding calendar for the Divisional
Offices would be two, four and six in each group of three years. The
Headquarters and five Regional Offices are already in place.

Costs

The full project cost envisaged is Rupees 5635
million, comprised of Rupees 570 million by way of community
participation and donation and Rupees 5064 million by way of other donor
contribution.

Benefits

The Project is designed to deliver the following
benefits to the villages:

“A seed is always
ready for self-effacement and thereby produce many more seeds.
In the same manner, the ascetic must allow the seeds of
morality, religion and spirituality to germinate and engage
himself in activities that will enable others to experience such
sprouting, by becoming an instrument of the universal power”.